How To Set Up Mobile Tracker For Fitbit

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Accept you always forgotten to wear your Fitbit and figured there was no way to count your steps and automatically sync them up with your Fitbit account? In that location is, and it'south super like shooting fish in a barrel! Read on to find out how I count my steps when I forget my Fitbit, using the Fitbit Mobile Track app!

Every stride counts

When I'k using my Fitbit Versa 2 and trying to move more than, I want to track every step! So earlier this week, afterwards a long day of working (which for me means sitting at a calculator most of the time), I headed to a mall with my kids. We were visiting my mom in Buffalo and wanted to get out of the firm, only it was freezing, so I figured I could at to the lowest degree get some steps in while shopping.

When we got to the mall I realized I wasn't wearing my Fitbit! I'd taken it off to shower and had forgotten to put it back on. I knew that I could only use a step tracker app on my Android phone to go along track and and so add the steps to my Fitbit app manually, but that seemed like a couple of actress steps that I shouldn't take to take.

A little googling and I had institute some help threads on the Fitbit website explaining that I could just use the Fitbit app itself. It only took me almost a infinitesimal to set up up. In that location's a tutorial at the bottom of this post, but read the following for some useful info most Mobile Track!

What is Fitbit Mobile Track?

Fitbit Mobile Track acts like a Fitbit device that's built into your telephone. Y'all set information technology up just like a Fitbit wearable, and it works in the background, counting your steps and tracking your other activity.

Information technology does not count stairs or active minutes, or runway sleep, but information technology will count steps, distance, and calories burned.

Can't you just use a complimentary steps app to count your steps?

Yous can, but as I mentioned higher up, you and then have to add those steps to the Fitbit app yourself, and make sure your numbers aren't overlapping with steps counted by your Fitbit. If you lot use Mobile Rail, your steps will already be in your Fitbit app.

Will Mobile Track double count your steps?

No. When you're wearing your Fitbit and you accept your phone with y'all, your steps will not count twice. When data is recorded on both devices, the information from your Fitbit volition override the information from Mobile Runway.

Will Mobile Track utilise a lot of your phone's battery?

Mobile Rail uses very lilliputian battery, just if you want it to use even less, all yous take to do is sign out of the Fitbit app, and then close it. Your phone will continue collecting your step data fifty-fifty when the Fitbit app isn't running. Every bit presently as you sign back into the Fitbit app, your step data will sync to the app.

Will the correct footstep count show on your Fitbit?

Information technology will! Once Mobile Runway syncs with the Fitbit app, that same info will sync to your Fitbit.

Steps taken mostly at the mall, when I wasn't wearing my Fitbit Versa 2:

Steps showing on my Fitbit when I got dorsum habitation, constitute information technology, and information technology synced with my phone:

What almost Fitbit Challenges?

If you're participating in whatever Fitbit Challenges, steps recorded with Mobile Track will Non count.

Tin you lot employ Mobile Track if you don't have a Fitbit tracker?

Absolutely! Yous'll besides exist able to utilize some of the Fitbit app'southward features, like food tracking, weight tracking, and messaging.

You lot but need to install the gratuitous Fitbit app first, which y'all can practise in the app store for your phone.

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That'southward it, y'all're all ready. Now, whether you're signed into the Fitbit app or not, whether your telephone is online or non, it volition exist counting your steps and saving the info until it tin sync over again.